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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) began an astounding experiment yesterday, where they hope to recreate the "Big Bang" from which scientists believe our universe was created. The experiment involves smashing tiny particles together at speeds close to the speed of light, and seeing...

Interesting news out of Israel yesterday, where Pensioners Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan said Israel could kidnap Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and bring him to court. Eitan, a former Mossad agent who helped track Adolf Eichmann, said:
The era of hunting down old Nazis is over, but...

Our September/October issue is now available online. In it you'll find:
In Religion & the Supreme Court we offer up a comprehensive assessment of whether and how a justice's faith affects his or her legal decisions. Some of the nation's most prominent legal thinkers, Jeffrey Toobin,...

The UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) has received a serious amount of criticism from onlookers in recent years, but according to a Christian Science Monitor article published recently, it looks like they got at least one...

Do you have questions for Ariel Sabar after reading his essay about journeying with his father to Jewish Kurdistan? Ask them here in response to this post: Leave a comment, and your question might be answered by him in a later post....

What did you do this weekend? Me? I just sipped some superb Merlot from nearby what Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of that backward village called New York City, would describe as "cosmopolitan" San Francisco and watched some videos of Republican veep pick Sarah Palin.
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The Forward recently reported that Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama, has a cousin once removed who is a rabbi on Chicago's South Side. His name is Rabbi Capers Funnye (fuhn-AYE) and he is head of Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation (House...

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Tunnels. The very word connotes ancient secrets, mystic rites and modern adventure. Israel is blessed with tunnels both natural (the country gets whole pages on spelunking websites) and man made: The "Rabbinical" tunnels alongside and beneath the Temple Mount...

Indiana Jones, err, archaeologists discovered a 2,600 year-old bulla bearing the name "Gedaliah ben Pashur" in the City of David. It may or may not be the key to a secret compartment with killer mummies. [JUF]
You're my hero! Israeli firefighters, during what was obviously a...